Because the family is very poor, the children have _____clothes.a、a fewb、fewc、a littled、

A.Due to

B. Because of

C. Owing to

D. Thanks to

My family like Sundays very much. Because on Sundays we can do what we want to do. I like p 小题1:ba

My family like Sundays very much. Because on Sundays we can do what we want to do. I like p 小题1: b

Franco: Is this your calligraphy, Xiaoyan？

Xiaoyan: Yes. Do you like it？

Franco: It' beautiful.

Xiaoyan: 1 think I'm good at art because my father is an artist.

Franco: l' m not. My handwriting is terrible, but 1 always write personal letters by hand.

一I don't like using the computer for that.

Xiaoyan: Neither do 1. But my family only send emails, don' t get real letters anymore.

Franco: Me neither - I'll write you a real letter!

Xiaoyan: Thank you! But I like using the computer for some things. I 'm keen on

researching my family history and I love surfing the Internet for information about that.

Franco: Really -me too!

31. Franco's handwriting is beautiful.

A. Right

B. Wrong

32. Franco doesn' t like using computers for personal letters.

A. Right

B. Wrong

33. Xiaoyan doesn' t like using computers for personal letters.

A. Right

B. Wrong

34. Xiaoyan enjoys surfing the internet for information about her family history.

A. Right

B. Wrong

35. Franco is not interested in researching his family history.

A. Right

B. Wrong

Mary Lou is a 22-year old student at Wilson College.She earned $4,300 at a summer job, which is less than half of her support.I.Mary Lou can claim a $500 family tax credit for herself even if her parents claim a $500 family tax credit as a dependent.II.Because Mary Lou is a full-time college student, and she provides less than half of her own support, her parents can claim a $500 family tax credit because she is their dependent.()

A、Only statement I is correct

B、Only statement II is correct

C、Both statements are correct

D、Neither statement is correct

A Good Lesson

After living in Europe for seven years, my parents decided that my family would move to the United States. We all looked forward to this. What would people think of us？ For me, I hoped to be the hero of the class.

I was not disappointed. All my classmates admired my experience, and I quickly became well known as “the French guy.”I was very popular for a time. However, I was not interested in many things my classmates did，and it was hard for me to connect with them. I enjoyed listening to classical music, never watched TV, and almost never watched movies.

I did not have a common background with my friends because I grew up in Europe. I had few friends，and fewer good friends. When I look back now, I realize I was a bit of an idiot to many people around me. I kept talking proudly about my experience. And I thought myself better than those around me because I lived in Europe but they didn’t.

I had decided I wanted better friends when my parents said that we were going to move again! I saw this as a perfect chance to get better friends，where people did not know of my unkind past.

When we moved to California, I did not show off as I had done for five years. I did not tell everyone that I lived in Europe. I still listened to classical music， but I just kept my music to myself. Sure enough, I found that people like someone who is not typical but does not boast about it.

Nothing can replace good friends，and if I had to control my tender and pride, it was well worth it.

11. When I first moved to the US，I was very popular because of my____ .

A.good appearance

B.outstanding talents

C.French accent

D.overseas experiences

1 had few good friends partly because I ____ .A.looked down upon my classmates

B.liked listening to classical music

C.never went to the movies

D.Came from a very rich family

The phrase “an idiot”(Line 3, Para.3) most probably means____ .B.an actor

C.a cheater

D.a fool

E.a loser

When we moved to California,，I stopped ____ .A.boasting about my experience

B.talking about people around me

C.enjoying the classical music alone

D.making friends with my classmates

The writer would probably agree that ____.A.good friends like the same kind of music

B.friends are more important than anything else

C.similar background is the key to friendship

D.a good friend never loses his/her temper

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

blem, because most families love home cooking! The food tastes good and warm, and a family meal brings everyone together.In some families, meals are often the only times everyone sees one another the same time.

Another reason people enjoy home cooking is that it is often away of showing love.A parent who makes some cookies(小甜饼)is not just satisfying(满足)a child's sweet tooth.She or he is sending a message.The message says, “I care about you enough to spend an hour making cooking hat you will eat up in 15 minutes if I let you.”

There is also something about the smell of home cooking.The smell of home cooking pleases people of all ages.It makes most of us feel good and loved，even if we are the ones doing the next time you smell a cake making，stop for a moment and pay attention to your mood(心情).

1.Fewer people cook now because they have no time.()

A.T

B.F

2.A parents spends an hour making cookies just to satisfy her or his child's sweet teeth.()

A.T

B.F

3.The writer thinks the smell of home cooking makes people happy.()

A.T

B.F

4.The main idea of this passage is that homemade cookies taste better.()

A.T

B.F

5.A family meal can bring the family members together.()

A.T

B.F

Mrs Sharp, a large, red-faced woman in her late sixties, has lived in Greenleas, a 'new town' in the countryside outside London, since 1958. Before that she lived in Bethnal Green, an area of inner London. She was moved to Greenleas by the local authorities when her old house was demolished (拆除).

She came from a large family with six girls and two boys, and she grew up among brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, grandparents and cousins. When she married her boyfriend from school at eighteen, they went on living with her parents, and her first child was brought up more by her mother than by herself, because she always worked.

As the family grew, they moved out of their parents' house to a flat. It was in the next street, and their life was still that of the extended family. "All my family used to live around Denby Street," said Mrs Sharp, "and we were always in and out of each other's houses." When she went to the shops, she used to call in on her mother to see if she wanted anything. Every day she would visit one sister or another and see a nephew or niece at the corner shop or in the market.

"You always knew 90% of the people you saw in the street every day, either they were related to you or you were at school with them," she said.

When her babies were born (she had two sons and a daughter), she said, "All my sisters and neighbours would help - they used to come and make a cup of tea, or help in some other way." And every Saturday night there was a family party. It was at Mrs Sharp's mother's house. "Of course we all know each other very well. You have to learn to get on with each other. I had one neighbour who was always poking(管闲事) her nose into our business. She was forever asking questions and gossiping (拨弄是非). But you had to put up with everyone, whatever they were like."

1)、Mrs. Sharp had to move to Greenleas because she had to work there.

A.T

B.F

2)、When she got married, she lived together with her parents all the time.

A.T

B.F

3)、She knew so many people because they were either her relatives or schoolmates.

A.T

B.F

4)、The sentence "I had one neighbour who was always poking her nose into our business." in the last Para. means I had one neighbour who always showed her interests in our private affairs.

A.T

B.F

5)、This passage mainly deals with what the extended family is like.

A.T

B.F

LIU HUI：Hi, Mei.(1)Are you settling in well here in this city

BAI MEI：Well, thank you very much for asking. Everything is going OK.

LIU HUI:(2)Did they all join you living here BAI MEI：

Oh no. My parents have their own lives because my father has a grocery store. So he must take care of his business and my mother stays with him.

LIU HUI：Oh, I got it.(3)Are they in their school years

BAI MEI：Yes, they all attend the international schools here, but I still teach them Chinese at home.

LIU HUI:(4)What kind of food do you usually have with your family

BAI MEI：Everyone in the family loves Chinese food. But we have western food on some special occasions, you know, I have an American hubby.

LIU HUI：Right.(5)

BAI MEI：Pleasure.

A. Thank you for sharing this with me.

B. That's very interesting.

C. How is everything

D. How about your children

E. How is your family _Bai Mei： tells Liu Hui about her family_. …

The cohesiveness(内聚力)of a family seems to rely on members sharing certain routine practices and events. For a growing share of the American labor force, however, working shifts beyond the normal daylight hours—what we here call "shift work"—makes the lives of families difficult.

Existing research shows that both male and female shift workers express high levels of stress and a sense of conflict between the demands of work and family life. But shift work couples still maintain a traditional attitude to the meaning of marriage and the individual roles of husband and wife. They expressed a willingness to do "whatever it takes" to approximate their view of a proper marriage, including sacrificing sleep and doing conventional things at unconventional hours. For the majority of couples interviewed, even when wives worked outside their homes, a proper marriage is characterized by a very clear division of roles: husbands are "providers" whose major responsibility is to support the family; wives are "homemakers" who clean, cook, and care for husbands and children.

The women's definitions of a "good husband" are typified by the following wife's response:

I expect him to be a good provider, and be there when I need him, loyal about the same things as he would expect out of me, expect that I expect him to dominate over me. But in a manner of speaking, when it's time to be a man I expect him to stand up instead of sitting back expecting me to do everything.

To husbands, a good wife is someone who is:

Understanding of what I feel go through at work. I need that respect at work, I hope I get it at work, I want my wife to realize what I expect at work. I don't want her to give me a lot of shit when I come home from work because I don't know if this makes much sense.

These views seemed critical to maintain the families of the shift workers.

Despite______,shift work couples still hoped to maintain a stable life.

A．traditional beliefs about marriage

B．lack of control over time

C．a very clear division of roles

D．the demands of work

a student who finished his work before all the others and needed something more difficult for him to do. "Could you help me in the library？"she asked. I said, "Send him along."

Soon, a golden-haired boy appeared. "Do you have a job for me？" he asked. I told him about a system for sorting books. He picked up the idea immediately. Then I showed him some cards for some unreturned books that I thought had been returned but not recorded. Maybe some books were put on wrong places. He said, "Is it a kind of a detective(侦探) job？" I answered yes, and then began his work.

He had found three books with wrong cards by the time his teacher opened the door and said, "Time for rest!" he argued for finishing the finding job, but the teacher won.

The next morning, he arrived early, "I want to finish these books," he said. At the end of the day, when he asked to work with me more often, it was easy for me to say yes.

After a few weeks I found a note on my desk, inviting me to dinner at the boy's home. At the end of a pleasant evening, his mother declared that the family would be moving to another school. Her son's first concern, she said,was leaving the library. "Who will find the lost books？" he asked. When the time came, it was hard to say goodbye.Though at the beginning he had seemed an ordinary boy, his strong feeling of interest had made him different.

Do you know who he is？ This boy became a great man of the Information Age: Bill Gates.

(1)、Why did the teacher go to the library to find a job for Bill Gates？

A：Because the teacher found the librarian quite busy.

B：Because Bill Gates wanted to find a job.

C：Because Bill Gates finished his study quickly and had more free time than the others.

D：Because the library needed a new worker.

(2)、What do you know from the passage？

A：Library work was very difficult for Bill Gates.

B：Bill Gates did his job without any difficulty.

C：The librarian was too busy to have a rest.

D：His mother hoped that Bill Gates would stay for his job.

(3)、The sentence "He picked up the idea immediately" means that ______.

A：he learned that system quickly

B：he collected that system quickly

C：he lifted up that system quickly

D：he improved that system quickly

(4)、What was Bill Gates expected to do in the library？

A：Finding the lost cards.

B：Learning the system.

C：Helping the worker with everything in the library.

D：Finding books with wrong cards.

(5)、How did Bill Gates feel when his family would move to another school area？

A：Sad.

B：Pleasant.

C：Worried.

D：Interested.

a child’s life．My family and I 56 a lot of time together，including every 57 ．Even when my father is 58 on business，my mother，my sister，and I sit down at the table to eat and 59 our day．We don’t watch television but have

60 together．As a teenager， 61 with my parents is not the most fun thing I do but I feel it is necessary．I learn from them 62 we talk, whether it is about my dad’s job or my mother’s day.

I did a little research on the “family table” 63 ．Statistics show that only 50% of 64 sit down to dinner together each night．That’s a 65 ，because researchers 66 that kids who have these regular family dinners have 67 behavior，grades，and a larger vocabulary．They are also less 68 to smoke，drink，do drugs，or have eating disorders Time with their parents makes kids more 69 and gives them a sense of 70 and safety．Plus，they learn better manners．

Now with many single-parent families or homes 71 both parents work，making time together has become harder．There have been many recent studies showing kids are“ 72 ”than they used to be．I think it’s primarily parents’ 73 ．Only good things 74 taking 15 minutes away from television and five minutes from video games to have this time with your family．By spending 20 minutes with 75 ，I believe this idea of “wild kids” would decrease greatly．

56．A．spend B．pass C．take D．cost

57．A．morning B．dinner C．weekend D．party

58．A．away B．lonely C．back D．alone

59．A．welcome B memorize C．discuss D．remember

60．A．snacks B．meal C．sports D．fun

61．A．putting upB．getting upC．keeping upD．hanging out

62．A．every timeB．beforeC．some timeD．since

63．A．planB．mannerC．ideaD．project

64．A．parentsB．sistersC．brothersD．families

65．A．wonderB．shameC．miracleD．worry

66．A．supposeB．claim C．assumeD doubt

67．A．higherB．worseC．lowerD．better

68．A．unlikelyB．probablyC．likelyD．impossibly

69．A．stubbornB．nervousC．silentD．stable

70．A．belongingB．anxiety C．honorD．achievement

71．A．whoseB．whereC．thatD．which

72．A．smarterB．quickerC．wilder D．slower

73．A．dutyB．faultC．powerD．burden

74．A．come outB．contribute toC．come fromD．result in

75．A．the otherB．another oneC．the restD．each other